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KAssoN FRAZER, or mitETTEVILLE, Nnw YORK.

HAIVIE FOR HARNESS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 4,773, dated September 26, 1846.

4To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, KAssoN FRAZER, of thevillage of Fayetteville, in the county of Onondaga and State of NewYork, have invented a new improvement in the construction of that partof the hame commonly called the clip of the comm'on hame inhame-harnesses; I understand by the clip and I define it to be that partof the common hame which connects the hame-tug to the hame-wood by arivet or rivets or otherwise, as the case may be. n

The nature of my invention consists in so constructing the clip in acircular form at the forward end as to prevent it from pressing inwardupon the collar of the harness and the shoulder of the horse. I call myinvent-ion the circular self-adjusting clip.

To enable others skilled in the art to make use of my invention I willproceed to describe its construct-ion and operation.

I construct my hames in any of the known forms and instead of fasteningthe clip on the outside of the hame as in the common form I fasten theforward end of my circular clip to the front side of the hame, theforward end for that purpose bending around forward in front of thehame, hame col-lar and shoulder of the horse, and there secured to thehame by means of a double point at the end of the clip. See drawingsFigure l, O, 0, c, n.

The double joint of the clip is composed of a swivel secured to the hameand revolves upon two pivots secured in two'single shank staples. Seedrawings Fig. l, O, c, c. The staples are firmly fixed in the front partof the hame. Fig. l, c, 0.

The clip, swivel and staples are made of brass, iron or of any othersuitable metallic substance.

In the accompanying drawings Fig. l represents a perspective view of thehame when completed. F ig; 2, represents sectional views of the mainbody of the clip A, B, of the swivel C, of the cap forming part of theclip D, of the small cap for securing the .clip in the swivel E, and ofthe staple F.

The end of the clip al, b1, being inserted into the swivel C, at theorice b1, the cap E, a2, is then put upon the end ofthe clip al, whenal, is riveted down on Athe cap E, a2, firmly. The swivel C, is thensecured to the hame by having its pivots c, c inserted through twostaples o, f-0, f, which staples are firmly fixed in the hame by meansof their shanks f, The cap D, is'

then secured to the clip A, B, by being placed upon the clip A, B, at g,che, e, and secured to the clip by the rivet CZ, through the orifice 71in the cap D.

The rivets e', e,v are used to secure the hame tug to the clip A, B, inthe common form, said rivets passing through the cap D at the orificesz', z'.

The sectional view F, represents a view j of one of the rivets c, f#0,f.

The dotted line 7c, B, la, in Fig. 2, represents the circumference ofthe segment made by the motion of the clip A, B, in moving outward andinward to and from the horse upon the pivots o, 0, of the swivel C.

The dotted lines Z, n, Z-Z, n, Z, in Fig. l, represent the circumferenceof the segment of a circle made by the motion of the clip O, n, upwardand downward by means of its turning at b1, in the orifice of the swivelC, at b2, Fig. 2.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is-The attaching the curved clips tothe front sides of the hames by. meansof do-uble joints so as to render them self adjustable and to keep thedraft directly in a line from the point of attachment of the clips tothe hames to the point of attachment of the tugs to the whitllet-ree, inthe manner and for the purpose herein set forth. i

KASSON FRAZ'ER.

Vitnesses:

Hicks IVORDEN, JOHN WATSON.

